Bob Heleringer | James Comer most promising in GOP field for Kentucky governor

2:28 AM,
Jul. 17, 2013

James Comer

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Bob Heleringer

On June 8, 1880, Levi Parsons Morton made one of the most ill-advised decisions in American political history.

The day before, after 36 ballots at a sweltering Republican national convention in Chicago, the exhausted delegates finally nominated a true "dark horse," Ohio U.S. Rep. James Garfield, for president. The vice-presidential nomination was then extended to one of Garfield's House colleagues, Levi P. Morton, a New York City congressman. Morton declined the offer, Garfield won, but was assassinated barely six months into his term, elevating another New Yorker who did accept the ...